Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering each other. So here, even with something like sex-- what [that song's] about-- you could never become one.

With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.