I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.
My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.
However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!
As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.
Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
