I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I haven't been involved in so much is hip-hop, which I chose not to be involved in because it felt like I would be what they called "perpetrating." It felt like hip-hop was so much of its own culture and that I was not part of that culture.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.