There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

We're five people five individuals who came together to create something to make music and to complete each other musically to form a perfect circle.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do like explore other styles of music.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity and that being able to join in musical activity along with dancing could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

In the theater it's about taking time in a musical segment a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Whenever I think about movies I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film you have a musical element to it not just on the scoring but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

I loved old black and white movies especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs the music the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.