Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
