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Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So it's an interesting relationship where the games aren't replacing something we do in real life, they're serving as a springboard to a goal we might have in real life, like learning to play an instrument.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

Movie music allows me to work with players as creatively as I can.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.