The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.