All I did was ask : conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists / Terry Gross.

Don't do it / Nicolas Cage
Like a skinny boxer / Chris Rock
Being square / John Updike
A man's voice / Johnny Cash
Lift everything up / Charlie Haden
Erotic cheese and crackers / Mary Karr
A new gift / Andre Dubus and Andre Dubus III
The craft itself / Uta Hagen
Use the disadvantage / Michael Caine
Right in the gut / Mickey Spillane
You will not find the word "lesbian" / Ann Bannon
We all die / Walter Mosley
A family courtesy / Mario Puzo
Make sense of it later / George Clinton
Bootzilla twenty-seven hours a day / Bootsy Collins
Dissonance / Nick Hornby
In the junkyard / Grandmaster flash
Alive in a coffin / Paul Schrader
A difficult place to grow up / Jodie Foster
I never told jokes / Albert Brooks
Beauty gone berserk / Divine
Kissing and licking boots / Mary Woronov
To iron a shirt / Joyce Johnson
So what? / Larry Rivers
Not to think / Sonny Rollins
Send the salami / Hal David
Like raw meat / Isabella Rossellini
A little out of whack / Dennis Hopper
The way people look / Chuck Close
It gets harder / Frank Stella
Mom, dad, I want to be a tap dancer / Conan O'Brien
Nothing else would matter / Eric Clapton
A large feminine side / Steven Tyler and Joe Perry
Too much for you to take / Gene Simmons
Dramatic beats / Samuel L. Jackson
Stop acting / Dustin Hoffman
In that hurricane / James Baldwin
A place of protection / Carol Shields
A fraudulent angel / Maurice Sendak.