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

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.

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.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.