I always write the pieces I want to write.
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
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.
It's the irrational things that interest me.
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.