With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me..

Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it wi….

The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but ro….

It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us t….

Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering eac….

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account..

There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynam….

I think it's better to just say nothing at all than to just send two words..

It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It wa….

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement..

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do..

There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you wou….

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this dram….

I don't really know what playing is. There's a way to do it correctly, but it eludes me. I think getting in front of an audience is definitely a good….

In all the music I've done, what I'm really interested in above all else, and I'm not sure it's what one should be interested in, is the kind of - yo….

In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's….

I would never want to kill a human being..

In terms of love and romance, it just seems less and less like that's ever going to happen again, or be a possibility for me. I feel like I've irrevo….

I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that ….

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediat….

Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a monastic life….