Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do to wash away the notes that I've been wor….

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life….

There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot ….

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin..

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the ru….

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick..

Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay ….

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of re….

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection..

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once ….

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become bette….

Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes….

You try and nurture the relationship. This day and age we have to do a little more networking than we used to do. All that does is make sure you befr….