I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.