John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.