I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

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

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles.

After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.

I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.