I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...

I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day.

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.

It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.