Make Theory Talk is an art which is rare in the world.

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.

Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

Rather be alone, than being with someone who is aloof.

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.

With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes.