A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.
My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.