"When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works."

"There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them."

"I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us."

"It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us."

"Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood."

"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."

"Music is my way of making sense of a world that often makes no sense."

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."