I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

• My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
• My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
• We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
• I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
• My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
• Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
• I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
• In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.
• I've got a great sense of humor.