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'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 was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

I didn't have a record player.

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.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

It's the irrational things that interest me.