I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

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

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

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.