When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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 didn't have a record player.
In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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.