Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

When you get a certain level of resources, and you want things a certain way, I find it difficult to get too belligerent because it's not my money.In this case it is. It’s a lot easier to stand your ground and say “I want it like this” when you know it’s your money you’re spending.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.