No matter where you're going it's the wrong place

The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin