I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Never have public feuds with anyone who's surrounded by people who carry guns.

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

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 lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals