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.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

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

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

I don't think there is much American music.