Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

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

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

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

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.

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

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.