I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.

The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

My favorite films are 'Paris, Texas' and 'Repo Man.'

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.

I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.

I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

I like to watch 'Paris, Texas,' but I have no desire to see it. I did it.

I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.

Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, 'fame.' It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that after 27 years that I considered my prison term.

'Alien?' Oh, yeah. I still get fanmail almost every week, pictures from all over the world on that movie. That's one of the most popular films I've done.

When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.

I'm not really into religion.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.