People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.
I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.
When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.
You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.
I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.
I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.
I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.
So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This has always been the case.
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.
I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing.