I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.