I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or learning about music or are finding this band called R.E.M. or have just previously heard "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts" as their elevator music. I wanted to present an idea of what an album could be in the age of YouTube and the Internet.

To this day I still watch tons of horror.