If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.