I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I have to keep testing myself.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.