I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

He then reaches a new low. Without warning, he is suddenly set upon by a bear.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

Health can be squandered, but not stored up.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.