My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.

You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

All music is the blues. All of it.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.

No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.