It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.

I think people are intolerant of artists.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.