I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I love life because what more is there?

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.