I've Got Huge Tubs Full Of X-files

I Will Read Biographies Or Autobiographies While I'm Writing, But Mostly I Put Books In A To-read Queue, Like Rachel Cusk's New Novel, "outline."

As I've Gotten Older I've Become A Devotee Of 19th-century Authors, Such As Charles Dickens And George Eliot.

We Like To Keep The Sexual Tension Underplayed, Especially Between The Smoking Man And Me. Once We Thought He Was My Father . . . It Got More Interesting.

The Real Truth About A Lot Of Life's Mysteries Can Be Explained By Science But People Don't Want To Get In Bed With Science Because It's Cold. They Prefer Religion, Myth, Drama.

There Are People Who Are Really Great Musicians. I've Met A Lot Of Them. And I'm Not A Great Musician. I'm Adequate Enough To Be Able To Throw Some Chords Together And Write Songs, But I Can Only Feel That Because I'm Expressing Something Honestly, Or In A Heartfelt Way, Or In Some Way That's Not Bullshit, That In Some Way The Songs Have Merit.