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

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

I didn't have a record player.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

You either are or you're not.