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Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")
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Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the toss and then she will respect you', the trouble is that sort of advice to the English middle-class male of a certain age doesn't actually help us very much because we've always been brought up to believe that it's extremely rude to shout back at women.
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Everyone loves to be loved.
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I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means.
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I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
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I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.
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Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.
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I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.
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I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
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It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.
