I Always Knew What I Wanted To

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.

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.

I Think It's A Great Handicap To Be Discovered At An Early Age. I Didn't Have That Burden Of Early Success. I Had The Much More Livable And Durable Career Where Success Comes Late, And Comes Slowly, And You Ease Into It. So By The Time It Comes, You're Ready To Deal With It.

It Doesn't Need To Be Imagined, It Needs To Be Written Down.

You Get Up Early In The Morning And You Work All Day. That’s The Only Secret.