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I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.