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.

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

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

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.

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

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

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.