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.

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.

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.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

There's something inherently comical about the fact that most people want to change other people's lives, while they themselves remain stoic as they loiter in their own shortcomings.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

The balancing act is challenging at times.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me." "While I think you'll marry Sophos." "I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.

The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.