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.
The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.