It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now.

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.