My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

My name or yours doesn't matter, we all are mere drops in the ocean of divine consciousness, an extension of Supreme Power'.

Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence.

I love mankind it's people I can't stand.

...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism.

When I saw my box after that, it was even more special for me.

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth