While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

I really love writing themes and melody.

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Humility enables us to learn from each other.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Lets nail it down, lets get it right.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.