A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.

I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.

The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you can choose between eating and sleeping, but you can't do both.

The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in different worlds because were on different continents.