The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.