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

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

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

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

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.

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

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.