In my youth, cinemas showed two films in one day. I used to watch both of them. It may sound strange, but 'West Side Story' was the only musical I liked. I didn't like musicals, or films with songs, at all. I always thought they were not real, that the songs sounded a little bit false. But in the case of 'West Side Story,' things were different.

I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

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