People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

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.

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

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.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in chief is a serious responsibility.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

All I can do in the context of pursuing any sort of TV thing, and all I've done in the past, is offer your life at any given point in time to whatever situation you're in.

Faith is a creative force. When we operate by faith, we employ the creative power of God.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.