I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin’s.
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.
I do have a strong sense of God. It’s impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that’s it. I’m clean and groomed.
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
I haven’t got purity, and I don’t think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
I have to watch out for being lazy.
I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.
I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, ‘the press.’
I don’t talk about my private life.
I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
Well, I really didn’t enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.
Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you’ll do to the next person you’re involved with, if you get half a chance.
I don’t like the compression on compact discs. It’s lacking in air, and it’s lacking in majesty.
Chris Black-well, who owned Island Records. Blackwell loved the tracks and said, “Let’s take it the whole way.” My God, we were on! We cut the rest of.
The whole Redlands business gave a patina of gravity to his personality.