I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere where you could do a lot of aspect of music without it being a conservatory. And that's why I went there.

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

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

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

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

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

One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.