If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.