You either are or you're not.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

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 always write the pieces I want to write.

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 don't think there is much American music.

I didn't have a record player.