I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

I didn't have a record player.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

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.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

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.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

Kalau nanti aku tidak asik lagi. Tidak menyenangkan lagi. Ingatkan aku tentang hal-hal yang pernah membuatmu bersikeras mempertahankanku.

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation

In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

I love being funny and talking with fellas.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

I like a girl who knows what she wants and makes me work for her