When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.

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

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

When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.