I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".

I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.

You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good.

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.