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.

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.

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.

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

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