I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

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

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.

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

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

I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.