Composing demands a degree of isolation.

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.