I always related my favorite music to the movies.

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

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

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.