You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

I live a different way today. I have a family, and they are a priority for me. These days, I no longer wake up in the morning and worry if my bass is tuned properly and practice for hours and hours on end. I don't perform as much, but when I do, there's such magic to working in front of a live audience.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.