I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

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 don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

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.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

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.