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

If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.

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.

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

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 work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.