There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art.

Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.

Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions of people, but I can design the music so that it's exactly right for you and only you at this particular moment for your particular experience, things that have happened to you over 20 years, to you're particular mental state right now.

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.