Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

Stars have their moments then they die.

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.