Kids lead a very private life.

I stress character, character, character.

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.

I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.