I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.

I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

I've written a little bit in Germany.

Like when you have the right title for something you're writing and you get lost - you can always go back to the title and go, "Yeah, that's what this is about."

It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.