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.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

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

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what orchestra it was, I can usually tell you what hall it was in. I can tell you, obviously who the conductor was, and who the composer was.