I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.