I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

Happiness often relies on one character trait: self-discipline.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.

Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

For some people hope is all they have. Encourage them and don't take their hope away, for they will be left with nothing.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.