If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that, you know, big movies are going to come out, huge movies are going to come out, and then you see them up in Malibu in the little Triplex theater a week later, on the scratch negative, and you think...“This is show business. This is the great movie career. And it’s all finding it in the shoebox.”

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.