When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.

If you want to be happy, be.

I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.

When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people having that kind of process within me.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.