I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
People need to stop filming things at festivals.
I'm always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.
My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.
If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.
Whenever there's a big national event that brings the country together - whether it's the Olympics, a royal wedding or the 'Bake Off' final - there are inevitably a few contrarian voices speaking out against it.
I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
Me and my brother Sunny never had the enthusiasm of visiting a film set or going to a screening or attending parties and meeting actors.
I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.
I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.
I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.
Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.
At my shows, I've been fortunate to see every walk of life.
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
I'm not a huge parade guy myself.
One of the troubles with signings is that you are surrounded by children, and some of them have got colds.
Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.
I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.
