I was given a keyboard as a youngling, and I tried to mimic familiar melodies. I think what actually got me into making my own tunes was the music of Daft Punk. Basically it was the notion that you could repeat an idea a million times as long as the idea was interesting (i.e. lent itself to repetition) and if there were some underlying layers that could distract the ear once in a while. My inspiration to make remixes, aside from the hordes of immortal video game composers and compositions, are the remixes from this site. I was particularly motivated by some of analoq's more minimal works. The fact that he is a Daft Punk fan neatly closes the circle.