When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of

Ladies and gentlemen after what I've been through I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going to Hillary Clinton.

You can't quit or give up before you get it!

Get Julian Jackson in here baby!...Julian Jackson, winner take all baby, that's all I gotta say, winner take all! Arghhh!

I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.