If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.