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

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

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.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.

I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.

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

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.