I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.