I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.

I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.

What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health. Too often, it eats away at our hope, belief, and faith.

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle bad is when they steal mine.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything.