I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

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

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

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

When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to be a composer, or think about - I was just interested in the ideas behind music, I was interested in mathematics.