What inspires me to create music? A delicate question for some artists. I get it. Not examining the muse for fear of losing it. I’m not sure my muse is all that delicate. It is what it is. My impulse to compose arose in junior high from an uncertain restlessness. It drove me to the piano to write. My early musical scores testify to a love of wide, open-voiced chords. And not too many. Minimal. Loud. I was a boy. And I still love those chords today.