Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.
Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
There's no such thing as an original sin.