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

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

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

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.