I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them in completely different contexts, and they mean something different to everybody.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.