I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.