I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make up their own stories. They don't necessarily have to know exactly what each song is about. It's their way of interpreting of interpreting different feelings or emotions.

If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile. When Tim Burton did Mars Attacks, he tried to make it a little bit kitschy, because it's not scary for people anymore. It's not scary that birds will attack you anymore, but I'm sure it was when Alfred Hitchcock made it. And it still is when you watch it.