I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.

I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

The journey of greatness begins in the mind

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.