A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

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

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.

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

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

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.