I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

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.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.