If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.