I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have.

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.

It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.

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

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had.

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