I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

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.

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.

I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.