I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.

I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.