He stole my music but he gave me my name.

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

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.

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