When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.