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I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's because the Internet. I think they're exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don't hear all the time in art communities.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.