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

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 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.

If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very personality.

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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.

One of the good things about the Paleo diet is that it automatically cleans a lot of crap out of your diet.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.