I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners on a journey across forty or sixty minutes.
In film, there's always this looking for the 'If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.'
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.
The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.
There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.
It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.
I did psychology at university, but I wouldn't say that my music is too influenced by it. The way I make music is a little more to do with an emotional connection. When I compose the melodies for my tracks, it always comes from the heart.
