Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

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

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.

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

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 scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.