When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

You guys ready to do this?

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?