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Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.