Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm not. And I'm not angry on stage. There is a heightening. There is an intensification of the feelings on stage in order to let them carry the room. There is a theatricality about it. The whole thing is oratory, so there's persuasion involved. There's the art of rhetoric involved. And so, with hyperbole and with the desire to really punch the thing home, some of it reads a little more angry.

The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods, silent treatments and martyrdom. And, of course, all she did was run my ass out of the house even quicker. The pressure was unbearable.

If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.