“My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist.”

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

Something respected, was the most important thing to do with your life.

100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory,

As a kid, I wasn’t given the sense that celebrity, or fame or any of that,

Was something to be impressed by, or to seek out. It was always impressed upon me that making something well crafted

I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.

I’m pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know – everything.

And I try to preserve whatever’s of value and achievable in their idea.

I’ve never made a video where I didn’t talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment.

Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

I always wanted to be a musician.

And I’ve tried to do that where I can in my field.

If it’s something I can’t achieve, I tell them straight.

Otherwise they’re not going to feel great when they’re up there miming it.

I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician.

It didn’t seem like enough for me.

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

There’s no way to learn how to write a hit song. There’s no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.

When I find a fashion formula I love, I tend to stick to it

Let’s bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee