The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

The feature film has changed a lot. Art houses are gone and people show a certain type of cinema in the big theaters now that, you know, it's not quite really good for me, and if I made a feature film, I was think I'd play in LA and New York for a week, and then go right to television.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.