Well, I thought it might be interesting to talk about my creative process, because I love talking about me. The first thing I do is that I look at pictures. They're usually naked or partially naked guys and gals. I look for something that creates a reaction that's unusual: not usually a gross-out but something unusual. A look in the eyes that says something to me or a sweep of the line of the body that looks like more than a plastic surgeon's dream. Stuff like that.

At that point I take Voodoo pad and make pages with different pictures and combinations of pictures on them. I start writing around the pictures. I also usually have some Bible reading I'm doing, some dithering in my handwritten journals, and then I start playing around with my piano. Sometimes I make images, but right now I don't have any paints! But I may make images of my own on the easel. I get the piece figured out as far as form and so on, and that determines what kind of writing I'm doing at the piano.

After a few weeks of this, I've produced another composition! Now, the hard part comes when it's for more than one instrument. Now I have to score the piece. I generally go out and buy music with the same combination of instruments in it... play the music while I do other things, and then when it comes time to score the thing I try to imagine what the instrument sounds like in that register and that kind of thing and I slowly score the piece.

I've never written a concerto, but I'm going to tackle a concerto grossi in a little while. I have a picture that will be great for a concerto.

Finally another quote from my offline journal: "When I use a photograph or visual image to inspire me to write music, I am not trying to recreate the image in music, but instead trying to recreate the range of emotions that the image produces in me in music."