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

If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

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.

The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.

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.