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.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

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.

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

I don't think there is much American music.

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

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.