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.

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.

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

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.

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.

My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me, ' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went.

Raise your children don't train them RjS

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.

Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

If you die, Lily ... I’ll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.