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.

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.

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 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.

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

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