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Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

I have always been involved in my school's music program.

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.