The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.