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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Prayer, God’s glory.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history

Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties.

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.