I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.
When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?
I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.
I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.
I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt ...
If I believe in the wish, I must believe I can lose it.
If I Believe in the Wish, I must believe I can loose it
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly
I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.
