Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.
I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.
I think that glamour is about confidence. I think however somebody feels beautiful, that's glamour.
I knew nothing about fashion growing up, because in Florida you just wear bikinis and flip-flops. But kids can be cruel, and they used to make fun of me for having long legs and bushy eyebrows. My mom would flip through magazines and say, "Look, all these models have that too. " I decided I wanted to be a model.
I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.
I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
Would that everyone might know that I would be already damned if it were not for Mary!
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.
A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.