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

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.