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There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.