Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it you are lost.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to...
I have one piece of music since 1997 and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.