Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.

Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.

There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

woman-another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

Sometimes happiness can come very simply, purely, merely if one is ready to embrace it with open arms.

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

You're a parasite for sore eyes.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.