If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

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.

The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.

Of course, things will go wrong. Move on! Don’t let the little snags affect the progress of your life.

Joy is strength.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.