Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.