Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.