People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.