Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.