I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

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

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

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.

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.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.