I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

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.

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

One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

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