I'm discriminated against all the time..

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have..

1999 was your last recorded output, and then Porter Ricks was put on hold until 2012..

Glibness will get your anywhere..

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His fac….

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy..

When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate..

I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job..

My hands and ears get me where I need to go..

A lot of these movies are informed by the movies that come before them..

Africa is on the rise..

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge..

There are some things that cannot be expressed through words. And that is why we dance..

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version….

It is true, I thought. I am living a life..

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself..

I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and comp….

You dig in and you find something..