In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot.

Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.