The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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!

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

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

I always write the pieces I want to write.