I needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.

I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.