I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on the page that will spook you into rushing." Little games you can play.

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.