That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

If you are sad and depressed, that means you're not believing God.

I lived in Brooklyn for a year and I moved out to Rockaway Beach. I've been living here for two years now. I put my address on the album, so I have a lot of visitors all the time.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.