I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.
When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.
I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?'
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.
I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.
It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.
If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.
British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!
Video game fans are like nothing else. You can do so many movies or so many TV things, but video games is where there is just everyone.
It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.
If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.
Maria Hill: Well, the news is loving you. Nobody else is.
Alicia: God must be a painter. Why else would we have so many colors?
