I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.