Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.

You can't judge people by their cover.

I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.

The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.