I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

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.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

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

I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.

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