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.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

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

I don't think there is much American music.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I didn't have a record player.

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