I Have Daughters Who Are Writers And

When I Was 18 Years Old, I Went On The Road With My Dad After I Graduated From High School. And We Were Riding On The Tour Bus One Day, Kind Of Rolling Through The South, And He Mentioned A Song. We Started Talking About Songs, And He Mentioned One, And I Said I Don't Know That One. And He Mentioned Another. I Said I Don't Know That One Either, Dad, And He Became Very Alarmed That I Didn't Know What He Considered My Own Musical Genealogy.

I Gave Up Language For A While, And I Started Painting.and Then I Only Listened To Miles Davis And Other Instrumental Music To See How It Felt To Be Without Words.

On The Plane, An Eight-year-old With An Excess Of Testosterone Keeps Running Across My Feet. Finally I Grab Him By His T-shirt And Say, Very Sweetly, 'listen, Darling, If You Don't Stop Trampling Me I'm Going To Make You Sit On My Lap While I Tell You My Entire Life Story. Including A Lot Of Details About Drug Rehab And My Divorce.' He Goes Back To His Seat.

Documenting One's Life In The Midst Of Living It Is A Strange Pursuit.

Once Your Kids Get Older And Get Out Of The House, It's Not Like It Stops. They're On The Phone With Me Every Day; I'm Intimately Involved In Their Problems.