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 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.

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.

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

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.