When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.