A healthy dialogue is always good.

Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.

While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their time, then it makes sense to engage with the artists of one's own time.

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.

Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.

Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care. Most people appreciate sincere guidance.

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

Be unwilling to lose.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved...

I don't expect forgiveness.I only expect acceptance.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.