My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

If you're making a cake, you don't just make the cake and have it look nice and have nobody tastes it. But that doesn't take away from your ability to execute what you do as well as you can and to have it be something for many.

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.