I'm Hugely Self-critical In The Morning.

When I Start To Write A Song, I Initially Fall Into Patterns And Creative Habits That Are Familiar, And Because They're Familiar, They Sound Convincing. It's Important For Me To Not Pursue Those Ideas, Because I've Already Done Them, But To Find Ideas That Are Different And Feel Strange To Write And Disconcerting To Write.

It's Very Intuitive, The Way That I Approach My Work. I Only Buy Something That Has A Pulse. I May Not Know How I'm Going To Use It, But I Know It Has A Pulse And It Has Multiple Readings - If I Shift It One Way Or Another, It Can Be Read This Way Or It Can Be Read That Way, But Both Readings Are Critical And Very Much Ground The Work.

Most Of The Time, Feelings Just Seem To Get In The Way. They're A Luxury For The Idle, A Bourgeois Concept. Feelings Are Overrated.

God Is In Everything Whether I'm Mentioning Him Or Not.

L.a. Is Full Of Screenwriters. I Don't Know Why. On Many Levels, It's Such A Thankless Occupation.