I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on performing because there were too many screaming fans and they were playing in larger and larger venues so they couldn't even hear what they were playing, it just wasn't any fun any more.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

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.