Working with Kevin Feige has just been a joy.

There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

I lived in New York City for six years, and I was always amazed at how diverse everything was.

I loved 'Planet of the Apes,' and I loved 'Star Wars,' and I loved 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' and to me, the goal always was to work on something as cool as that.

There was a time that I did 'Up,' 'Star Trek' and 'Land of the Lost,' and I was working on 'Lost,' at the same time, and that was really hard.

One of the things I was never thrilled about with 'Medal of Honor' was that it was non-stop music.

I have tons of drawings of 'Star Wars,' whether it be stormtroopers, Darth Vader, Star Destroyers, or the whole thing.

It wasn't until high school that I actually started writing. I was in a lot of the school plays and musicals, and there was a lot of down time during rehearsals. I would go into the orchestra pit and mess around on the grand piano.

Scoring animated films, I have the exact same approach and philosophy as I do for a live action. It's all story- and character-driven. I don't care if it's a mouse or Tom Cruise.

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.

I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era.

When I was 10, I had a group of friends that I used to love to make movies with, and we made them growing up; we did it all through high school.

I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as much. He would have loved a Mac. If he'd had a laptop, he would have been unstoppable.

There are a lot of guys who do this job, and they have tons of assistants. They all kind of write together, and for me, it's basically me here in this room, and that's it.

The Internet's a crazy place to hang out because it's insane to see so many people doing so many creative things all over the map.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their emotions.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I was a good kid.

Inuyasha' is one of my favorite animes.

A lot of people's favorite rappers will literally get in the booth and just make sounds.