If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

I take sounds and change them into words.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.