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.

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

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

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