Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.

The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records; in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.