I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

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.

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."

Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing about it on the Internet as if I'm having a conversation with them. We've never met, but somehow, my music is communicating something to them. Very often, it really makes them feel something.