"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."

"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."

"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."

"Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all…music expresses itself."

"I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading."

"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."

"I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop."

"I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music."