Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

I never sing in the shower either.