After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.