I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet you'll lose your...
People look at me and they go 'You're white you're smart you must have...
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.