I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even more. You know when you hear music in a movie and it makes you fall in love with the characters? That's what happened.

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Watermark," Bach, and my dad's song, "Song for the Whales."

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.