North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.

However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.