I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
We talk about characters in literature as though they were built on the model of the real person, but then I often think that the way we present ourselves as real people is based heavily on the way literary psychologies are stylized, and I wonder how the two forms of realistic personhood feed on or fulfill each other.
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.