I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.
I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.
I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.
It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.
Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.
Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.
I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.