I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.