If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

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.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

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.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

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