I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.