I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

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

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

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.

I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.