The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.