I consider everything I compose a gift..

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right..

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award….

Own nothing, control everything..

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Whoever prefers Allah to all others, Allah will prefer him to others..

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music..

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship the….

The greatest movies are the ones you want to watch again and again..

I never thought of myself as a writer..

I'm playin' the music I like..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times..

I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying some….

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere..

all deaths are one's own..

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?.

You don't respect my religion. I don't respect your outfit..

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.