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.

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

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

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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

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

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.