I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.