"2014 is full of opera for me, at the moment," said Jones at the after party for the London launch of the Philip Glass opera "The Perfect American."

Jones is currently writing an opera of his own, based on August Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata." "I'm halfway through the first act," said the multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger, adding that the biggest challenge is "the sheer scale of it, I think. I don't know. I'm probably about to find out what the challenges are."