Well, when I'm writing the music, I just follow my fingers, and follow the thread that hopefully emerges in the music.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing

I don't want to bore myself, so I'm always writing new music. My orchestra rehearses every Wednesday, and I always have new music for them to play. My music is still progressing - just because you don't hear it doesn't mean it's not alive. The music is complicated, but it's about emotion. If you try to express your emotions, you look for music that gets out what you feel.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.