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The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

I don't write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge.

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.