I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.