I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.