The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.