I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So many sit around, waiting for superman, when in fact, Wonder Woman lies within.

We’re all women. We all have the same wonderful situations happen to us, the same horrific situations. We all get our hearts broken.

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line.

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.