I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

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.

Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.

I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.