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

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

You either are or you're not.

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

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.

It's the irrational things that interest me.