I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.