The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
I believe that every film should have a message, something that resonates with the audience.