After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.