"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.