I row for about 40-45 minutes every morning and put in my iPod and it's a huge range. That's when I listen to either things that I just love and know very well and just want to pay attention, it's also where I listen to things that are new that I want to get to know.

A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

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

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

I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.

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.

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