Stephenie Meyer on the Volturi, Music and Muse

We have yet another interview from when Stephenie Meyer sat down with a few Twilight fansites right before the theatrical release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. This Friday Twilight Series Theories has a great transcription and audio clip of the part of the interview where Stephenie talks about the very scary Volturi, her admiration for Michael Sheen and Jamie Campbell Bower and all of the music that has inspired her and was used in the movies. Check out more below:

Fansite: I think you might’ve touched on this before a little bit earlier, but you said that sometimes Jane does act on her own a little bit.

SM: This is really kind of a…I mean, Aro is very controlling. He is the pinnacle and he has all the power and so he calls the shots but in this specific case knowing with Alice he has to deviate from the pattern and so he let Jane make her…You know he said, “Go out.” And not even specifically about them because Alice could see that, you know just “Jane, I think that you are very much fantastic and I want you to go out and take care of things in the world that need to be taken care of on your own. I think you can make your own decisions.” And Jane is like: “Ah, I know what this is about.” And so she goes out there and she knows it’s her mission. She knows it’s about the Cullens. She knows that she has to effect some kind of progress there, but how to do it. So yeah that’s Jane. You could write a story about Jane through [that] month of frustration and all the stuff she was trying to do and not screwing up so that when she came home Aro didn’t decide “maybe I don’t need someone who can burn people.”

Fansite: I’m kinda, when you…I think I connected even more with the books when I was on your website and saw Muse on it ‘cause I was like: “Aw, this takes me back to high school.” ‘Cause I’m not…not necessarily all of their music [does that] but that’s when they were writing a lot of really good stuff and it’s kind of funny that they’re so popular now ‘cause they were out back then.

SM: When I first heard them like nobody had heard about them. The thing that for me that fits with the way I write and the way that they’re music strikes me, I guess, is that they are so…they’re not cynical about it. They throw themselves into it. They live that emotion and there’s no sense of like: “I’m gonna hold back and be a little sarcastic” or whatever. They just [put] pure emotion into the songs whatever it is. It’s the end of the world? It’s the end of the world! Like they don’t…They take it seriously, and when I write I don’t like to be cynical I want to just feel the emotions and so their songs work really well for me that way.

You can listen to the interview and read the entire transcript at Twilight Series Theories here.

What do you think of Stephenie’s explanations on Aro and Jane? What do you think of her thoughts on the soundtrack and why she admires Muse?