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

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

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.

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.