I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I am but an architectural composer.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

I am really addicted to music.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.