Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?