It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

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

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.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.