If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my finge….

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with y….

...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time th….

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the….

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm workin….

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick t….

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear o….

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the ….

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words..

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it..

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets..

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition..

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert..

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound..

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar..

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the thing….