As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

Its not like I have all the answers.

I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners