I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.