There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.

Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

I do feel that whatever happens, it's important to work with great people and do something great. That's how I feel.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

love is the only thing we have to save us

Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.