You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.