I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.