The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

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

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.