You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.