The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.