I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

There was only so much television you could do.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.

Every situation has changed me as a person.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.

If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.