When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

The people on Quintuplets were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.

I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.

Divine Consciousness is constantly seeking ways to express itself through us.