Video game and movie soundtracks helped to begin my interest in music so I've always taken a kind of cinematic approach. I feel that all the best songs I make kind of make themselves, its like a compulsion. I have had little formal training. My influences are diverse- James Newton Howard, Yasunori Mitsuda (composer of Chrono Cross Soundtrack) Madona, Linkin Park, and many more. I tend to relish in clashing with the traditional.