If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Technology changes nothing.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.