I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk.
Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.
By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.
I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.
I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
I think, no matter how successful you are, there is some struggle of one kind or the other for every actor at every level. There are times when your work progresses at an extremely slow pace.
The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.
