“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ”
“In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it-- three minutes; to collect the data in it-- all my life.”
“...record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song.”
“I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.”
“Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.”
“I can hardly wait to read it all. But it seems I don't have three minutes to rub together. Some time soon I will take it on, maybe when Charlie is a few months older.”