I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

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

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

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 am the captain of my pain.

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.