Music is a form of prayer.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Music is a form of prayer.

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.