Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.

There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.