It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

They would say, 'What are YOU eating?' ... And that's what they wanted. They said, 'We want to eat what you're eating.'

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.