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

I'm not an architectural composer.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

I didn't have a record player.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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