To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.
People should be interested in books, not their authors.