I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.