Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.