Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

Awareness seeped in and brought its friends Pain and Agony for a visit.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

I have a feeling that I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.

I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

High school is about finding who you are, because that's more important than trying to be someone else.

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.