“I’ve led bands since I was a teenager and have written music since I was too young to realize what I was doing when I screamed into a boombox mic like a chimpanzee, banged a trashcan, and glomped the keys on my neighbor’s casio.

“Now, I pretend to be an elegant composer, making magic with the Muses, catching ideas from a mysterious ‘other place’ like I do with everything else.

“But in my heart, I’m still screaming like an ape.”

–Roberto Bloom