"I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody."

"The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words."

"See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile."

"We steer completely clear of anything suggestive."

"It is a quiet truth that every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning."

"Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema."

"I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords."