Don't you open your mouth about the best!

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

But people find it easy to take shots on Twitter, and to use racial slurs and bullying language far worse than what you'll see from me. It's sad and somewhat unbelievable to me that the world is still this way, but it is. I can handle it.

Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.

Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.