I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.