We want our music and ideas to be in the forefront, and what we learned permeated our thinking. Notions of film and architecture feed what we see in our minds as we make music.

Sandro definitely brought a lot of ideas to what we're doing, and helped with the cohesiveness of the album. It's really good to have an outside perspective in deciding things like which songs to keep and knowing when they're complete.

Alicia is a very energetic workaholic. She's always thinking. We're always feeding ideas off each other, which generates huge cell-phone bills, by the way.

It's not universally true, but Thai clients are on the whole receptive to big ideas. They have started thinking out of the box, and I think the success of the whole industry has contributed to this.

The relationship found its rhythm. He began to rely on me for ideas of where music could express ideas that he wanted to achieve.

There are a lot of opportunities to try out new ideas and new things through the music. I think that Gounod has done a magnificent job relating mystery and sensations and moods with the music.