Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.

I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

Maturity comes when keeping a secret gives you more satisfaction than passing it along.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

The path from Hythe leads, for a little while, along the line of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway, whose 15in-gauge steam trains run throughout the year from Hythe to Dungeness.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

I just have a lot off different influences.

I didn't fall for a lot of that stardom stuff.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I'm not a materialistic person.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

I have never been a cynical person.

With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Coffee was a food in that house not a drink.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.