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

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.

I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, but I was also learning how to manipulate computers.

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

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.

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.