My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.