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.

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.

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

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

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.

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

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.