I love these guys. I discovered them in the winter living in upstate New York and it’s just so raw and simple with really poetic verses. It’s the story of it, how he sort of locked himself away in the woods in the winter in Wisconsin. Again, it’s the difficulties of love. How you fight for love and how you fight your partner for love. The title is just such a great title.

Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” I am a great lover of New York City. And this is the anthem to New York City, I think.

Elliott Smith has been a big part of me as an actor and an artist. This song was a song that my wife turned me onto when we first started dating.

I stumbled across The Besnard Lakes. They came to me in this fever dream and “Because Tonight” felt exactly like what I wanted music in a movie to be. It was just so cinematic.

Today we have “Kid A” from Radiohead. I thought that was a really seminal album for them. I really love this mixture of elctronica, and the strange little clicks and noises, and this robotic vocal quality. It had this real kind of melancholy to it. This sort of morph between human and cyborg that the album had, no one had really done that in rock-n-roll up until that point.

So I started ranging around, listening to a bunch of different stuff. The old Flaming Lips — “The Punk Rockers Are Not Taking LSD” days, those Flaming Lips, I thought that was a good sound for these guys.