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

It's the irrational things that interest me.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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

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

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

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.