I still feel lucky whenever I hear a director say, "Action!" Because then I think, "Whoa, I'm really in the movies. This is a real thing happening." I've never not been enthralled by that. I still love it. I still love hearing it, and I feel really lucky all the time.

The more I keep myself occupied and jump from thing to thing, the more I think it enriches both.

Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound.