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

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

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

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 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.

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

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