Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

Unknowns in life are adventures, avoid calling them fears.

The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

The disciplined are free.

Life is essentially a question of values.