Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere

I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.