Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.