In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.

The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.

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

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported.

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

I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.