I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

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

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

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 had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.