Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.