“They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.”

That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.

It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

Never run in the rain with your socks on.

I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I’ve never done before, and I love making stuff.

I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

In every song I write, whether it’s a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn’t we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it’s civil rights. It doesn’t get any better here in Berkeley I’ll tell you that.

I love my friends and family, but playing, that’s my DNA.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.

Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.