It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

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

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

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.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.