When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some CHARACTERS that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural BORN leaders, and OTHERS succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into SAVAGES. It's really a FASCINATING character study in the exploration of the human psyche.

Cyclops, that's like this primal FEAR. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a SMALL creature living in our huge fish tank at HOME, and at night, it was going to GROW to full size and COME after me.

Everyone has a family, even if they're at WAR or fallen apart. It's the closest initial BOND, and there's a SORT of primal element to that. Your primary RELATIONSHIPS are FORMED out of family.

All this primal ENERGY people respond to in me and my CHARACTERS is in my music, 10 TIMES more.

When you have a LITTLE one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very SENSITIVE CREATURE. That is your CHARGE. That's primal. I relate to that DEEPLY.

When you SIT down to eat at a table, you are READY to TAKE in nourishment - we all NEED to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship.

I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the BUSINESS, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are PERCEIVED as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I GOT into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.

The expressive BODY is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I MAKE the BEST of my WORK. It's coming from a primal PLACE rather than an intellectual place.

Perhaps the more benign and POETIC sense of GOD is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling COMPLETE and at one with EVERYTHING - yet having no words or no need to SAY it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.