There was a jingle house called Lucas/McFaul in New York, and they called me 'the demo king.' I almost never had the big final - in jingles, you have the big final, and then you sing on it, and you make a good deal of money.
There's such a rich trove of unheard Howard Ashman lyrics that we're so blessed to draw from.
The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.
Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a member of that workshop.
'Snow White' was really hip for its time. Walt Disney was basically using Sigmund Romberg and operetta in the telling of the story, and through animation - that was revolutionary.
