The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.