I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

I don't think of my music as being about something.

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.