As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.