Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

I don't think there is much American music.

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.

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

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

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.