Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

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

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.

I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.

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

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.

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