I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.