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 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.

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

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 don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.