I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.