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.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.