One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

What makes me feel old is having no hair on the top of my head.

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.