The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

I think music docs could turn off some people.

My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought...once you've hired the car...

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.

My parents were not theatrical at all.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

I don't have to be anything at all. I don't even have to be myself, because there is no such thing as not being myself. I am inescapably myself.

We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.