I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

The consumer is always right.

In some ways I'm very structured.

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.