“Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.”

“I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.”