"Being curious is an absolute rule of life. If you don’t have that, I don’t know what you're doing in this music."

"Even while I was studying at [Manhattan School of Music], I was learning about melody and rhythm, and theory, and har…"

"You must remember that it was a different time...It was before everyone was looking into their smartphones. There wer…"

"Very often the things that we consider to be new are not new. They're just new combinations or reanimations and reima…"

"You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yo…"

"So often I have said in the past, when a war is over, the statesmen should not go into conference one with another, b…"

"the more violent the boy, the more I see that he creates, and when he kicks the others with his big boots, treads on …"

"As one who wrote interesting stories — whimsical stories, perhaps — and who drew whimsical maps and landscapes across…"

"One of my fondest childhood recollections is spinning 7” vinyl records on my plastic turntable, an RCA 45-EY. Becomin…"

"I was stuck somewhere between originality and no gigs. My own colleagues called me the conceptualist, the maverick wi…"