Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

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

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.