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

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

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.

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

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

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.