Craft is part of the creative process.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.