No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.