Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

You either are or you're not.

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

I don't think there is much American music.