Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.

I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.