I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite.

like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Some things are worth the wait.