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.

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

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.

Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it never really got its just due. Now, hip-hop seems to be getting that recognition and is more widely accepted, which is great.

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

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.