Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.

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.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

Praying is a prevailing force.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel

Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.

Is the peace of God in the soul disturbed by things down here? No, never! If waters break in stormy currents against a rock, the rock is unmoved; it is only the waters that are disturbed.

Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.