I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

I am not religious, but I am spiritual.