I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

I always get very calm with baseball.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

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.

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.