I think I'm a focus for international attention.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.