I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.