Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

It's never been about making money.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.