I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
“Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.”
“Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.”