The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author.

Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin.

Anyone can be a businessman

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

I believe that we live in a "return to sender universe" - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.