Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I believe that music is God's voice.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

Should teach us that there are no happy endings, so no desilusionariamos us if we did not get our happy ending.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

sometimes, when the sun shines, it scorches.

I haven't done an international film for a long time.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.