Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.