If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actually.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

It looks like an echo of the Katrina effect.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.