This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Choose your mutations carefully...

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Be so focused on believing that you can that it doesn't matter if anyone says you can't.

She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache.

We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.

Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you’re not with them forever.

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.