You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
