The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.