I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.
The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.
I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.
I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.
When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.
I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.
Canada's the best country in the world.
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
I guess what I have to say is, "Don't do it. " I don't recommend it, because, having said that, the people that should do it will do it anyway, despite the fact that I've said not to do it. Only the ones who've said, "Oh, she said not to do it," aren't going to do it, and they shouldn't be doing it in the first place.