I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before.

I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.

My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.

It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo.

You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.

My family is very theatrical.

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

Some men are more perfect than others.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.

Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.