It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

Marketing is the devil.

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?