I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.
I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.
I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.
We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.
When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.
It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2. 5 times.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to each movie scene, but my goal is to compose music that works perfectly for the director, and me!