It’s kind of hard not to have that interpretation when he prefixes the statement with “I’d actually like to…”. “ If he’d said “A part of me would like to” inst

It’s kind of hard not to have that interpretation when he prefixes the statement with “I’d actually like to…”. “ If he’d said “A part of me would like to” instead it probably would have been assumed to be metaphorical. But he didn’t, so here we are.