I Love A Visceral Sound, The Kind

I Actually Don't Like This Term, "classic." It's Wrong, But We Don't Have A Better Word At The Moment.

I Always Had, Deep Down, A Slight Aversion Toward The Purely Cerebral In Music.

I Was Starting A Group Of Musicians And We Had A Group Of Young Composers In Finland Back In The '70s, And The Real Conductors, The Professional Conductors At The Time Were Not Interested In Our Stuff.

I'm Trying To Conduct Only Five Months A Year, And The Rest Will Be Composing Time. I'm Trying To Spend As Much As I Can Out Of Those Months Here In L.a., Because For Creative Work, This Is A Fantastic Place.

This Country, And The West Coast, Especially, Is Bad At Preserving Any Cultural Legacy.