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

England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not just between music that's a rather complex and also pretty direct. Like the Beatles.

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

I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere where you could do a lot of aspect of music without it being a conservatory. And that's why I went there.

I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want to call it pop, but it's some interesting artist that gets my attention, I listen to in the mornings.

All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

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