Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.