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.

Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

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 want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

I've got some words of wisdom.