It's the irrational things that interest me.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

I don't think there is much American music.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

You either are or you're not.