My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.