I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.
I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.
I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.
Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.
I just never doubted myself. I always knew I was going to do something.
I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.
I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.