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I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.