I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

Never underestimate the power of denial.