My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
“I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.”