I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something like, "Well I'm thinking he was shot in the neck with a certain gun and he seemed to be running." The solver has to picture what he's seeing first, and then express his own observations. The writer does the same.

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.