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 want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

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

I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.