Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Bad music can make you weak.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

I speak for the trees!

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.