I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

Its not like I have all the answers.

I think to me, all songs are stories.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

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.