It’s best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

You repeat things because they’re like your personal obsessions.

I’m really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren’t so, but there’s only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn’t noticed.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.