It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don’t like writing them, or if they bore you, skip ’em.

I skipped ‘College Dropout’ and ‘Late Registration’ and went straight to ‘808s and Heartbreak

In order to do ‘Amores Perros,’ I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.