I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

It's very difficult to liberate yourself from what you've learned. You know it's almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.