My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.