Obviously There Will Be A Backlash. If

As I Kid, I Was Always Jealous Of The Music That My Favorite Bands Had Written - But Not Really Of How They Played. So I'd Daydream About Having Written Songs, And This Way Above Being Able To Perform Them.

I Can Remember Soundtracks That You Just Can't Separate From The Film - It's Just So Intertwined, So Important. Like The Hitchcock Ones Where They Kind Of Inform Each Other And Become This Larger Thing As A Result.

Composers Are Influenced By All The Important Music In Their Lives - And I Suppose That Since Radio Started Playing Popular Music, That's As Likely To Be The Beatles Or Aphex Twin As It Is To Be Verdi Or Ravel. They'd Be Strange Teenagers If They Didn't. But Cross-pollinating Happens Too - Aphex Twin Did More Interesting Things With Electronic Music Than Most Trained Composers, Who Seemed To Approach Samplers With Undue Caution And Reverence In Those Early Days.

I Don't Mind When People Are Telling Me About Their 1971 Firebird, But It's The Same Thing As People Telling Me About Their Car Or Something. It's Fine If You Have An Interest. By Talking With Me, Though, You Could Be Interviewing A Novelist About Guitars. It's The Same Thing, Except I Don't Write That Well Either.

I Was Just Very Conscious That I Could Either Bore People By Having The Music Be Similar For Too Long, Or I Could Just Wear Them Out And Bore Them In A Different Way By Having It Changing Too Much Every Minute Or Two Minutes. So, There Was That Kind Of Balance To Get Right.