Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

A person can be so beautiful when the heart is filled with love and the voice shivers with kindness.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Vampires are always going to be sexy.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.