I think that music has an endless life.

Composers are always going back to the past.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

You know, nobody eats in England. three or four pints of english beer a night fills you. i can’t say i’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. like turkey sandwiches.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

If you want to open, come close to me, I have a key which can open the locked door of your destiny.

This wasn't the last of it. Now that Finia was carrying his baby, they would be together forever, whether she liked it or not.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

Climbing is what I do.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

It's easier to promote things, if you have fans.

When we look at clouds we see different shapes. See all the grace you can.