I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.