You either are or you're not.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

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

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

You either are or you're not.

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.