The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.