The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

I'm not an architectural composer.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.