The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.