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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

There's no formula.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.

I try not to do anything by formula.