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.

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

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.

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.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

Whoever says the Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.