What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.