On the Internet, it's not just content that's king. It's regular content. But models like Kickstarter don't work for regular content. And the advertising you earn on YouTube is nice, but it doesn't...

I do not want to act unless I have a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

I always have a different way of looking at things.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

I feel like when you're making the album, you can't really see the forest through the trees a little bit about what's about or what you're trying to get across.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be...

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

I kind of write in my own little world.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many...

I've done records where I've collaborated with people. I think it's dope, and to be honest, whenever I do that, I get a different result.

The thrill of doing visual effects doesn't exist.

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of...

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we...

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art.

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

I did a guest thing on 'My Name Is Earl,' and there is something about being involved in a TV show that's in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.

It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family...

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give me comfort. As I grew up, I realized I could find that sense of power and voice if I...

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.