On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

I'm passionate about the fact that this world that we live on is a stunningly beautiful place we have despoiled at every level.

Antarctica is one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. I don't think that everyone should go there. I also think that we need to respect it as a kind of a national park for the planet. It should be you know put in parentheses.