It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.