This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.