In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.