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

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.

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.

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

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.

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