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

I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even if you play an open string, you feel it.

The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new project. So, the only time I listen to the radio for music is with my daughter's when I'm driving them to school, or driving them somewhere.

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

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

Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.

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.