Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job

The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.Look under the leaves and branches of convention.

God created every heart, every person for relationship. Connection has the power to both impact a person's life today as well as their eternal destiny.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.