I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.
As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.
However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.
Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.
Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.
Nothing can be further than the truth.
When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.