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Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.

Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

I have songs that define characters from each film of mine. It can be a song from that particular film or something that just goes with the wavelength of the film; you listen to it, and it gives you that rhythm. I can't articulate how it helps, but it somehow gives you an understanding of the character.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.