I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.