When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.

Appreciate and find ways to invest in yourself

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.