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A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

I don't really call myself a composer.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.