When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!