Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.