We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot of opinions. I think it's really important to encourage artistic freedom. I think if you inhibit that, that could be dangerous.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.