I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

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.

Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again.

Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most important question I can ask is, “What are the lyrics?

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.