I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

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

Parts win prizes, not actors.

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

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.