I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.
There could be some unknown actor who's a better actor than Ving Rhames, but no one knows that actor, so Ving Rhames will get the job.
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.
I sometimes feel I want to release an album without people knowing it is me.
I've played positive characters. But those films haven't been noticed.
