Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
I didn't have a record player.
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
