I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

Pran Nath always encouraged me to do my own composition and experiments with Western classical music, along with the pure study of Indian classical music. I think he also felt that something of this depth could also be assimilated in America and would be uniquely our own, since it's been transplanted here.

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.