I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

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 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.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

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