It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

I think that music has an endless life.

Composers are always going back to the past.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

You know, nobody eats in England. three or four pints of english beer a night fills you. i can’t say i’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. like turkey sandwiches.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

You can overcome any situation with positive attitude.

Don't let your 'bad pride' prevent you from moving forward on an opportunity that will allow you to showcase your 'good pride'.

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Children are everything we could have been.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I've succeeded a lot but there's still so much to do.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.