The Work I've Done Is The Work

Akhnaten Is Kind Of A Dark, Kind Of Mysterious Character. We Don't Know A Lot About Him - A Lot Of Information On Him Was Lost. But He Obviously Was A Kind Of Iconoclast Of Him Time. I Guess I'm Attracted To People Like That. Like [albert] Einstein Also, Who Radically Changed Our Way Of Thinking About The World We Live In.

What Came To Me As A Revelation Was The Use Of Rhythm In Developing An Overall Structure In Music.

I Think I'm Really Part Of A Whole Generational Movement In A Way. I Think A Lot Of Other People Since And During This Time Have Gotten Interested In Writing What We Can Still Call Experimental Music. It's Not Commercial Music. And It's Really A Concert Music, But A Concert Music For Our Time. And Wanting To Find The Audience, Because We've Discovered The Audience Is Really There. Those Became Really Clear With Einstein On The Beach.

I've Been Called A Minimalist Composer For More Than 30 Years, And While I've Never Really Agreed With The Description, I've Gotten Used To It.

The Hardest Thing About Traveling Is That Mostly You Get To A Point - And It Always Happens On Every Tour - Where You Can Choose Between Eating And Sleeping, But You Can't Do Both.