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

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

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.

It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.

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.

Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.

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.