Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

My shows are not narratives.