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

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.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

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

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

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.