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I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.