I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.