The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture.
Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character.
If I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded.
I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.
You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.
To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take.
A lot of backup singers are really shy and don't want their life documented. They're not pining to be celebrity. They've had a front-row look at celebrity for a long time, and most people find out it's not for them.
Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.
I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.
At the beginning of the '70s, everything was possible.
