Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.