It's cool to play a vampire.
We write the songs that we do because that's what we like. But they are just stories - not things we actually do or recommend anyone else go out and do.
Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.
I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction.
As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way.
I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.
I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit inadvertently for me, in that I'm trying to follow people into points in their lives that demand that I investigate the future.
