I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.