If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.

I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

People are put off by the perception of science fiction, and it doesn't help if you've got references to quantum this and quantum that on the first page, and people think, 'This isn't for me,' and chuck it. I'm probably a pretty bad offender, given how far in the future some of my stuff is.

I don't think people get the pressure of becoming famous and what it does for an artist. What does that for your creative self. And what that can do for your mental health. And I would say, from year two to year six or eight of 'Grey's,' it was extremely difficult and very stressful and traumatic, if I'm being honest.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.