I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

Music makes the people come together.

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.