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I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

To me, making a CD is like writing a book.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.