I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.