You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

History is simply what's behind us.

Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable, take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities.

The harder I practiced, the luckier I got.

I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.