Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.'
I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.
I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.
For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.
