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

I don't believe in an interventionist God

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.