Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

There's nothing like a stressful day.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.