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Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

Music is organized sound.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.