I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

I really like your playing

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

There's no prayer like desire.

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.