And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
I love to read about what my love life is really like.
I love stories about women.
I love stories about misfits and underdogs.
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
'Lullaby' is about boundaries.
I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.
Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I.
My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want to be a writer.
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
I've written about superheroes. I've written about talking ferrets and math geniuses being chased by madmen. I've written about spies and demon-hunting soccer moms. I've created an entire world that centers around a paranormal judicial system.
Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax.
Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages and pages of articles about Abstract Expressionists, when we came along, we were just not taken seriously at all.
Ghost has always been about make-believe.
