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.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.