A Lot Of People Are Not Meant

My Job Is To Just Express Something That I Want To Express. And If I'm Ahead Or Behind The Curve, That's For Others To Decide.

Poe Had This Curious Kind Of Alchemical Courage, Where He Took All The Terrible Things And Terrors That Happened In His Life, All This Shame And Fear And Pain, And Turned Them Into Great Works Of Art. He Was A Complex, Brilliant Person Who Was Just Wired Too Tight.

I Was Never A Joiner. I Tried - I Had People I Admired And Liked And Wanted To Hang With, But I Ended Up Starting A Theatre Company And That Took Me Back To Chicago... I Guess I Wasn't A Scenester In The End. Something Must Have Worked Out Right, As I'm Still Here - But I'm Only A Binge Socialite.

I Remember The '80s Being About The Cold War And Reagan And The Homeless Problem And Aids. To Me, It Was Kind Of A Dark, Depressing Time.

I Read Noam Chomsky. I Like Some Of Gore Vidal's Stuff.