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.

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

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

You're weak. Be strong and it's easy.

Sometimes you fall in love with a song 'cause it's new, it's exciting and you just birthed it. Then you fall out of love sometimes. But the strongest songs always survive and you come back and you fall in love all over again.

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

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