I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something like, "Well I'm thinking he was shot in the neck with a certain gun and he seemed to be running." The solver has to picture what he's seeing first, and then express his own observations. The writer does the same.

Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.