Eventually I did that but it took a lot of twists and turns and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home no car no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

Twenty years ago I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.

When I was in New York I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

You know if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile they didn't do it right? They're still living at home with their mothers.

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me it seems to reflect look back and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

I would never kill a living thing although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causing you to bump into people not going your way.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf I can.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.