All my work begins with drawings.
For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
For the very first video I ever made, I was told to film our family reunion, or something like that, and I had so much fun with it that I just kept doing it since then - probably since seventh grade.
With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
But man invents nothing God did not create first.
Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.
I probably started painting when I was in preschool.
I started making beats when I was 13.
I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
