I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.

The higher the unemployment rate, the more leverage I have to 'encourage' you to 'do what it takes' to keep your job. And so you work even more hours, pushing unemployment up and wages down. And that, my friends, is one of the little tricks that keeps you poor and me rich.

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.