To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?"