I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how much you can trust your memory. You don't want it to be self-serving. And you have all these issues about how to present yourself. All these factors make it harder to do than a novel.

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.

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.