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.

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

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 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.

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