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

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

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

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.