Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.

I don't watch a lot of reality TV.