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.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.