There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.
The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.
With 'Hannibal,' it's almost like the music is part of the furniture, so as a character goes from one room to another room, or we go from one place to another or whatever, the music is just going with it the whole time the same way that the audience is sort of tracking it and following along.
When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.
If I put the sound of the ocean on, that's going to do something to you. And I know what that is because it does it to me, too.
'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.
My favourite scores, they have very little music. I don't ever want to notice the music coming in. I just want it to suddenly be there and feel something.
With 'Hannibal,' I just really want people to feel something.
One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a soundtrack, but it was.
I'm not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players. It's triumphant, and it's emotional, and that's what sports are for.
To me, 'Auto Music' wasn't work. It was in-between work.
My dad had a candy-apple red sparkle drag boat with a giant hemi engine in it that he raced professionally. The sound of that engine was the most incredible sound ever.
I only want to make enough money to make more music.
'Loveless' was a really big record for me. It was what was keeping me alive when I was still touring with Redd Kross.
I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.
I love futurist music.
I think that this television medium, or whatever we call it now, is a really great frontier to turn people onto music - to new music or old music. It's a great platform where you've got people's ears, and you can throw something at them. I like to use it to the fullest that I can.
The thing about me is that I'm a total music freak.
I work on everything, whether it's a film or TV show - I wouldn't even consider 'American Gods' a TV show. I don't even know what it is.
NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.
