I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years – first, the house that had been my grandmother’s since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
You can’t rent a car in Bermuda; about twenty miles long and two miles wide at its fattest, it deems itself too small for surplus traffic.
It’s a funny thing… I started touring at nine or ten years old, and for the first ten, fifteen, almost twenty years of your career, you’re the youngest guy on stage and the youngest guy in the room.
You’re going to have twenty years as host of the ‘Today Show,’ and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you’re going to think you’re living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.
I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It’s like that one year where you’re invited to twenty weddings.
I’ve produced my own films for twenty years now – it means I have to talk to less people.
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.
I haven’t been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn’t interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren’t even considered.
