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've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.

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

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music.

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.