I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

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.

The clearer the objective, the better the performance.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

All of nature is resurrection.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.