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

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.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

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.

The right faith gives you power to live with questions you have no answers for.

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it.