I didn't have a record player.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

You either are or you're not.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

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.

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.