I'd Say The Differences Are More Interesting

I Always Knew What I Wanted To Do And I Did It.

I Travel The World, And I'm Happy To Say That America Is Still The Great Melting Pot - Maybe A Chunky Stew Rather Than A Melting Pot At This Point, But You Know What I Mean.

I Don't Think I'm Capable Of Making Radical Changes, But Over A Period Of Four Or Five Years You Can Perceive Very Big Changes, And They Seem Rather Small At The Time.

My Biggest Problem About Writing Is Whenever I Write Piano Pieces, Because I Then Have To Learn To Play Them, Which Is Sometimes Not So Easy.

The Generation Of Composers That Are Just Preceded Me, People Like [karlheinz] Stockhausen, [pierre] Boulez, And, Well, [john] Cage For That Matter,[morton] Feldman ... That Was A Kind Of Experimental Music That Was Very Isolated. It Had No Real Public.