I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.

In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.