I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.

You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.