I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

I really love writing themes and melody.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

If we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.

In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do about it? And we have to do something.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

The dove is my emblem.