I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.

I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.