I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

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my dear, we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede.

It means a lot to me, the sanctity of marriage.

I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.

Some questions change everything.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.