The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

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

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.