Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

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

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.