People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life.

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.

I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.