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.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

You either are or you're not.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.