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

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.

The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

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."

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.