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've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids.
There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.
I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
