Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

I'm the worst thing since Elvis Presley to do black music so selfishly and use it to get myself wealthy.

I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong， maybe even embarrassingly wrong， and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

对民主的热爱就是对平等的热爱。

有时你必须在内心经历某种死亡，才能从自己的灰烬中重生，相信自己，爱自己，成为一个新的人。