Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.