I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

You know you’re dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn’t help to cover up a murder.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

I'm always perpetually out of my comfort zone.