The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

I was lucky enough to know Maurice Sendak, and talked to him about doing the movie. For a while, I was really apprehensive of it, because Where The Wild Things Are is a book I love so much, and I didn't want to add something to it just to be able to make a movie, or put my stamp on it, or something like that.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.