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

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

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

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

I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

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