We really don't rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don't have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.