“We’re all part of the same bag of molecules. If you care about anything—like your family, your community, or your ecosystem—then we should try...
“When you’re a writer, you live in dreamtime. It’s kind of like a kite. You begin with your own story, and the higher it goes, it starts to take off...
“My friends and I will be having a wonderful moment—sunset, driving back from Malibu—and they’re like, we all know you’re going to write a song about...
The composers that I know spend time alone and sing to themselves. It’s wonderful because they would never have heard those sounds if...