Composing is my life blood.

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.