I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if you use them for that early stage of support for things.

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.

None of this is his fault, but here we sit in the police station.

She didn't want to talk with Levi. And wasn't that the problem. She wanted to do things that didn't involve any talking. Well, maybe it did if you counted dirty talk.

At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

Output always equals input.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

You don't miss your water 'Till your well runs dry.