I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul.

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.