I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

The less you feed the ego, the stronger you will be.

Don't cry after my death . with smiling face send me to heaven.

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Terrorists, oh I'm sorry, Fox News tells us it's all illegal immagration's fault but it's not their fault, it's ours.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.

Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out.