The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
You either are or you're not.
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
I'm not an architectural composer.
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.