People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.

Think inside the work - outside the work

I take sounds and change them into words.

Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.