England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not just between music that's a rather complex and also pretty direct. Like the Beatles.

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

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

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.

I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of the bow, I should be able to use similar techniques for measuring the way anybody moves, and so somebody who is not a professional or a trained musician, I should be able to make a musical environment for them.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.