How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.