My process has evolved somewhat and it will maybe continue to evolve. Well, I spend so much time writing all of my own music that it's kind of a busman's holiday for me. See, it's a little more than actually rearranging because I've actually transformed it. I've taken, sometimes, a minor part and made that the subject of the piece. There's a real private joy in the way things come out.
Some pieces are further away.
I radically changed the harmony and the melody in a drastic way. For me the original song is a very straight ahead rock number, except for Robert Fripp's guitar part, which set it apart from the norm. It's kind of tough to take something so forward and make it into an orchestral piece. That's what was tough. That was very challenging, especially because it was the song that everybody knew, and then I put it on the first track of the record.