High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

As a boy I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents you're kind of roughing it literally.

When I go to movies and I love the movie it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies to tell you the truth.