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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

Where do you even draw the line between genres?

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.