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I wanted to have a free life.

I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.' Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was.

By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

I was always free because I felt free. It's very important to be free inside. The most important thing is to feel free.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.