I guess there's just a meanness in this world

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

I only ever wanted to feel more human.

Even when battered and broken, he was beautiful. Yes, a guy could be beautiful. Especially if that guy was Deandre.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.

My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.