You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

I believe in people treating each other with respect.