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.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

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.

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.

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

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