I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.
You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.
People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
James Dean has never been one of my guys. I don't want to be him. I will take boring anytime. I love boring! Are you kidding me? Matt Damon has been one of my favorites forever. He always elevates every bit of material, and then you don't hear a thing about him.
James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.
Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself.
I got a phone message from Janet Jackson saying, 'Hi, I love 'Losing My Edge', can you do me something funky and dirty like that?' I can't really do off-the-peg stuff, so I never called back.
I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.
By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.
I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.
