Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

My body of work means nothing to me

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.