Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

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

I'm not an architectural composer.

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

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