Music has been hijacked over the Millenniums by the bully boys who dictate what is said and listened to.

Control of musical output was decreed firstly by royal dynasties and religious leaders, then by dictators and now by the fashion and taste gurus.

Music was manipulated in eighteenth century Germanic Europe to maintain written and spoken censorship.

My belief is that music should put sympathy for the subject and emotion first. A composer should come out from hiding behind theories. Music has had its fair share of mathematicians.

A composer should have influences from several other forms of world music to increase the subconscious pallet.

I have always considered each instrument or group of instruments as an entity and not subservient to a lead instrument.

Lead in my music is a synergy of several instruments, where the whole is greater than the constituent parts.