Philosophy Quotes

"Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like."

"I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music."

"And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music."

"People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular."

"The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture."

"Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about."

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

"I think I made good movies."

"My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting."

"I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think."

"I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent."

"I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak."

"I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later."

"I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore."

"I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year."

"If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded."

"I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself."