"I feel that every day I pick up the instrument is an opportunity to reinvent myself better, better in the image of the instrument, which will always be better than me, better in the image of the composer's living or recently dead or long dead, who are often also humbling figures in in one's psyche."
"At some point you have to organize elements in a way that you create beauty at the end. I would say the biggest challenge is to be aware when you have to delete part of the music you like."