Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. 1924-1926)

You will be happy, when you connect to the source of life, God.

Don't be nice to me. Be what your personality requires you to be. Be what your nature requires you to be. Be real. Don't pressurize yourself.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.

Fashion should be a game.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.