I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'