If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.