I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Over the course of the last generation or two, a variety of technological, economic and social changes have rendered obsolete the stuff of American social capital.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.