It's awful to be afraid of sex, but I'm afraid that's what the '50s did to people. It was just sex is disgusting, it shouldn't be talked about. Nudity is disgusting, we just don't talk about those kinds of things.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

The less I say the more my work gets done.