As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.
Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff.
As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.
During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.
I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.
I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
I can't really worry about nuclear war any more than I can worry about the aliens coming.
I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.
I can never marry an obese guy.
I write with as much objectivity as I can.
I don't like running that much, and during the off-season, I have to do it, but if I can replace it with tennis, it is better.
It's a privilege and honor to write and star in my own comic. I can officially cross that off the bucket list!
All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.
Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.
Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
