There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.

I thoroughly believe in evolution, and how we evolve and how our physical being is affected by time and use and by the environment... it's more than just challenging, it can be terrifying. We all struggle, but I think it's important to be there for one another.

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

There's so many people dependent on our work for their living or their livelihood. You do something whether it works or whether it doesn't. Once you're committed and you do it, it becomes a part of your life. I wouldn't be sorry about it. I'd learn from it.

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.