The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean and the instruments are little or bigger islands very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day but sometimes when they do not have school we will try to do something in the morning too.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said the essence of what I had said was wrong.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record but not promising that they'll put an album out.