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

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.

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

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

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.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

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.