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"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."

"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."

"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over."

"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels."

"Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it."

"If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it."
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"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets."


"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts."


"I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too."


"I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley."


"I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic."


"I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive."


"There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic."


"Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith."
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