I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

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

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

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

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