I can still remember the instant I realized that one group of features was associated with an older supernova remnant. I think the e-mail I sent around to the other team members had more than twenty exclamation marks in it!

I realized that as I was getting older, I had to prioritize what I really wanted to do in the world of music. I concluded that I wanted to use my time to write shows for Broadway. Since I already have a very extensive conducting career that takes me away from New York for most weekends, I decided that I would not pursue film scores any more.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

All good was a remnant.

It's a long corridor, basically, that doesn't have a lot of features from one end to the other.

Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.