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.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.