Composing demands a degree of isolation.

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.

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.

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

Leaves lift trees.

Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.