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

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

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

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

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.