I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.