In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.