I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

