Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
I always write the pieces I want to write.
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
I don't think there is much American music.
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.