He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.