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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.