I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.