Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes and nineteen seconds long and it's going to have changes here, here and here, and there's going to be a convolution of events here, and there's going to be a very fast rhythm here with a very slow moving part over the top of it." Those are the sort of visual ideas that I can draw out on graph paper. I've done a lot of film music this way.

Think inside the work - outside the work

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

I believe in singing.

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

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.