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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

Obviously, as the music business has suffered tremendously, with being able to illegally download everything, it's also become amazingly easy to find new bands, because everyone can put their stuff online. Even if you can't find a record label, you can find these awesome bands, all over the world.

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.