The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.