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.

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.

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

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies

Deep experience is never peaceful.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.