If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.