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

Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our minds. It allows people in groups to do a non-verbal immediate activity together.

Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

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

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

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles.