There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.