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

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

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

Craft is part of the creative process.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

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

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