I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

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 secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.