Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.

We all make choices. Believe me, I would like to write the hit of the world. It's not like I have any desire to be in the shadows. My vision isn't marketing. Some people want to sell 6 million albums. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just not what I do. I'd rather look at a piece of work and say it's great rather than it's successful.

I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.