I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.