Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.

Nobody on Earth does a project by himself. So you have to make sure your team is intact.

As' by Stevie Wonder - it's the greatest song ever written, bro.

I always try to get to the point where I can do different things with my voice.

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.