There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.