I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.

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

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.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

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

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

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