When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.