I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

I try to talk as little as possible, unless I see something that I might disagree with.

For me, when I watch something without music, I'm instantly thinking, "Okay, what am I going to do here? How am I going to convey this?" I take notes and really think about that.

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

That's what I love about film scoring. Every situation is new. Every show is a new adventure.

What I love about film scoring is that all the answers are in the story. You just need to get in tune with the story and realize it musically.

When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.