But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around