I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

There two kinds of spirit

Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

There are no long-term lessons - ever.