You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

Most screen violence is tedious.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me