I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

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

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.