On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

