I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get.
The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.'
Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.
I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
I don't like to not call a spade a spade.