“Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be convent...” — Alex North Quote

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

People love Twinkies, and everyone knows about them, yet Hostess went bankrupt. Attention and commercial success have an uncertain relationship in business.

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

When you're dealing with a bankrupt sovereign - like the U.S. government - you're dealing with a very powerful wounded bear. You have to be very careful because you can't know what the beast is going to do.

I'm not bankrupt of effervescence. I'm not bankrupt of craic.