Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Watermark," Bach, and my dad's song, "Song for the Whales."

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just did the Led Zeppelin song for fun, and I thought I could do it kind of quick since songs that I love a lot I can do fast.

It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even more. You know when you hear music in a movie and it makes you fall in love with the characters? That's what happened.

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.