I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.
I consider myself a composer.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
I don't really call myself a composer.
I've always been a composer dependent on texts.