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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way."

"With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood."

"But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that."

"I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap."

"I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth."

"But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices."
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