You Usually Can't Tell What's Inspiring Until

I Try To Get To Those Peculiar And Particular Things That You Never Think Of To Say.

We Went To See All The Shows. American Musical Theater And Jazz Were Very Big.

I Had This Terrible Stammer, So I Couldn't Really Speak Properly Until I Was 16 Or 17.

You Know When You Take The Paint Off An Old Canvas And You Discover That Something's Been Painted Underneath It? That's What I Feel Like - That Part Of The Old Is Coming Through The New.

I Grew Up Not Understanding What Was True And What Was Not True. It Gave Me A Sense Of Unreality. I Was Told That This Man [mom's Lover] Was Not My Mother's Lover - When He Was. I Was Told He Was There As A Male Babysitter For My Brother So That He Would Learn Sports And Other Manly Things.