You have to really know what you're saying.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.

Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.