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.

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.

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.

But—I’m leaving.”Not without me.

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

Love brings about passion and passion is always marketable.

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you.