Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

I really love writing themes and melody.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go." "Ooh, me, too," Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. "What? It's what girls do. Get over it.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.