Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion that movie stars only exist in the movies. And to see one live is like seeing a leopard let out of the zoo.

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

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.