Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

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 prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

You are God’s image.

The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.

The force of character is cumulative.

I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it!