I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

What you see is what suffices you

Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African- Americans, Hispanics are living in he'll because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.