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John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.