The Only Performance That Makes

When You Write Songs, You Have To Like Them Yourself First, But Then You Have To Make Everyone Else Like Them, Because You Can Force Them To Play It, But You Can't Force Them To Like It.

You Can't Always Get What You Want, But If You Try Sometimes, You Might Find, You Get What You Need.

I Love Country Music, But I Find It Very Hard To Take It Seriously. I Also Think A Lot Of Country Music Is Sung With The Tongue In Cheek, So I Do It Tongue In Cheek.

One Song Isn't Going To Ever Change Things, But I Suppose It's The Accumulation Of Music Generally [that Is]. If You Can Imagine A World That Has No Music In It, It Would Be A Very Different World, So Music Does Change The World By Virtue Of All The Music In It. Cumulative Music Of Every Kind, From Banging A Drum To Playing A Flute Or Recording Symphonies, Or Singing 'war, What Is It Good For?' All Those Things Change The Whole Way We Live.

I Would Hate To Say As A Non-african-american Person That It Would Be Wrong For A Black Person To Direct White People In A Movie. Wouldn't That Be Awful Of Me To Say That? The Only Sympathizing Thing I Might Say For People That Want To [grumble] Is That A Filmmaker Should Have An Understanding For The Place Where The People You're Portraying Are Coming From.