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

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

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.

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.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

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 one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.