I Think There's A Certain Numbness In

When I’m Singing “deanna,” For Example, Which I Sing Pretty Much Every Night, It Brings Forward A Kind Of Imagined, Romanticized Lie About This Particular Person, Which I Find Really Comforting And Exciting To Sing About.

I Don't Think Hollywood Makes Many Good Films Anymore. How Many Directors Can You Really Trust To Have An Artistic Vision, Not A Corporate Vision Or A Watered-down Communal One?

Jesus Christ Was The Biggest Blight On The Human Race, He Was. And All Them Socialists And Communists - Second Rate Christianity.

The Reason I've Gotten Into Script-writing, Which Was Accidental To Begin With, Was That I Found It Was A Far More Effective Medium For Violence. Which Is Something That I'd Always Written In Songs, But The Violence Always Sat Strangely Within A Song. And I Was Always Interested In The Way In Which You Listen To Murder Ballads And Things Like That - These Weird Lines Would Kind Of Come Out, Like, I Drug Her By The Hair Or Something - That Sat Weirdly In The Song. Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed For Betrayal And Violence.

My Responsibility As An Artist Is To Turn Up At The Page Or The Piano Or The Microphone. The Rest Is Up To God.