Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.