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.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

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

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 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.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.