I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.