Dan Aykroyd

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.

Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.