My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of her melodies, and had some of the hospice participants sing it, because they said they liked to sing. Their singing is very raw, but I'm going to use it for the final work.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.