So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.

I can't believe I'm in New Zealand, I can't wait to play. It's just so beautiful out here and so awesome.