For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.