I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

To be free is to seek faith.

How can you read this? There’s no pictures!” “Well, some people use their imagination.” – Gaston & Belle

They view New York as Satan's waiting room." "If this is the waiting room, where does the guy reside or work?" "New Jersey, I assume, " Kyle said with a smile. "I mean, dude, have you been to Jersey?

Life is a sacred wonder.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.