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It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.