I'm Not Precious About Anything. The Effort

The Key Is, If Youre Not Monkeying Around With The Script, Then Everything Usually Goes Pretty Well.

If I'm A Director And I Read A Script And I Say Yeah I Really Want To Do This, I Would Never Walk Away Because The Deal Wasn't Very Good - That I Wasn't Getting Paid Very Much Or That The Chances That I Would See Anything On The Back End Were Remote Because Of The Financial Waterfall And The Way It's Structured. I Would Never Use That As A Reason Not To Do Something.

If You're A Painter And You Want People To Know Who You Are And Recognize Your Work, You've Got To Build Some Long-term Value.

A Big Part Of Making An Album Is That You Want To Have Enough Material - You Want To Have Enough Stuff For People To Hear And Know That It Represents You. So It Does Sometimes Turn Into A Situation Where You're Saying To The Person You're Working With, "well, What Do You Want?" But Then There Are Other Times When I Work With People And They'll Turn To Me And Say, "how Do You Want To Do This?" And That's Actually When I Work Best.

I Don't Have Any Kind Of Ideology That Precludes Me From Moving In One Direction Or Another. I Just Want Creative Autonomy And I Want At Least An Opportunity That It's Going To Be Seen.