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

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be a little bit more presto here. Hang on, this should be a bit more exciting, or I try to explain the scene to them, or I try to explain the context the notes are supposed to live in.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

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

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