I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.