Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.

I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.