I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.