I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Nothing ever happened except God.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.