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

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

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

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

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

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.