I think having a sense of urgency is very beneficial, and understanding that your time is limited can aid you greatly. I think knowing that this is a temporary time [and] that we have finite lifespans—I think there's great power in that because it motivates you [and] gets you going ... One of the things that makes life so interesting and fascinating is that it doesn't last. You really get a brief amount of time here.

First of all, I have what you call 'fuck you money,' and if you have fuck you money and you don't say fuck you, what's the point of having the fuck you money? You're wasting it.

There are far too many people that get sucked into living a life where you're just doing a job. You're just showing up and putting in your time and then going home, but you don't have a passion for what you're doing, and I think that's the recipe for a boring and very unfulfilling life.

It requires a humility and it requires a detachment from self in order to create. When I'm writing, I'm blank ... I'm just staring. The part of my mind that's active is not like me; it's like this weird core function part where I'm not aware of my personality—I'm not aware of any of that. I'm just trying to put it together in a way that I know works.

I don't know what [the world] looks like in five years. So, in 2025, to answer your question, it could be anything. We could be looking at 'Mad Max.' We could be looking at the apocalypse. We could we could also be looking at an invasion from another country. We could be looking at a war, like a real hot war.