a musician named Yoshiki, who’s in a band called X Japan, asked me to make a music video for him. I said, “Okay, let me hear some music and I’ll see if I get any ideas.” So they sent one piece of music over that was basically just talking with some kind of music in the background, like a poem. I said, “I don’t have any ideas,” and turned it down, and they called back in a giant panic and said, “We’ve already announced it!” They offered me more money, so I did this thing for a song called “Longing” that wound up being really fun.
