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

I'm not an architectural composer.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

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.

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