[on his 9-year break from acting]: People think Performance (1970) blew my mind...
my mind was blown long before that.
Performance (1970) gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that I had been
completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But
after that everything changed.
After I made "Performance", for about a year and a half I started to try and reform my life. I thought it was a mess. I did start going back to church and I started to read the New Testament.