One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

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

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

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

I'm never happy with anything.

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 started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.