Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.
I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff out and get all purple with it, being cryptic and wearing masks. . . I think it's a bit adolescent. I wanted to write in a way that was vulnerable. I wanted to have courage in stripping back the opaque stuff so it was just raw. I like lyrics that are a lifeline, that have a purpose to them and are not just meandering around in a masturbatory way. They cut the page.
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.