If I wasn’t making music I would probably be in the woods with a big deer….Talking to myself.

As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an argument or read a book or see a painting or whatever you do, it influences you. And as you live your art, it changes and grows just like you and your soul or whatever you want to call it. For me, it's never-ending, I call it "the organizer of chaos." That's what I do with this and I present it in a way that I dream. So basically, I'm just sharing my dreams with all of you.

I mean, if I'm going to the Oscars or something, yes, there are people that are contributing and I'll tell them what I don't like or whatever. I know what I don't like.

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

If I wasn’t making music I would probably be in the woods with a big deer….Talking to myself.

On the one hand, how many people do you need to love you before you feel OK about yourself?

I don’t think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you’d be much more shocked.