I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.

Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.