I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.