I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.

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

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.

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.