It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.