I think you just keep going. I've been that way, my whole life.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.