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

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.

I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing and singing in That Dog was really fun, but I wanted to work on other musical projects and sing more. So I started a vocal project, i.e. Imaginaryland.

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."

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

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

I always related my favorite music to the movies.