Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

I tried to be as positive as possible, because I have the same birthday as Michael Jackson. He is my cosmic brother. I love him.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?