I am a gardener of infinite time.

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

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

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

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.

Music is a form of prayer.