Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.
It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.
I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.
You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.
She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.
Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes. " You carry the terrain in your mind.
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.