I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.