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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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