I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.
But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make it, straightforwardly, honestly, passionately, without regard to whether people will like you afterward.
In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.
I just try to show everything I represent and I represent God so I want to put that in my music.