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.

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

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

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.