We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.
Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. . . . Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed.
And trust. It takes a long time to trust someone. You work with people, anybody you dont know, it takes about a films length to get to know each other. Then if you move on, you have to start right back at the beginning. But if you carry on together and try doing different things, you can all grow together.
While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.