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Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.
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I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.
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And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
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I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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