But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.

You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.

And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.