You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing about it on the Internet as if I'm having a conversation with them. We've never met, but somehow, my music is communicating something to them. Very often, it really makes them feel something.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.