Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'