I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

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

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

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.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.