Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!
I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?
An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!
Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.