You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

Having the great opportunity on a daily basis to sit in front of a blank page is terrifying, and at the same time really exciting. I can't actually get better at my job, because every time you finish something you start with a blank page, with nothing.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.