Singer-songwriter and actor; records as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Recorded · Clash · 2012
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Arts and letters
People on the record here who work in arts and letters, and what they were asked.
120 people · 5,580 answers
What would you want written on your gravestone?
Composer and musician
Recorded · Clash · 2008
I really like the idea of a gravestone inscription that would scare someone. I would probably put "I'm going to follow you home and watch you sleep".
Bandleader and songwriter
Recorded · NPR · 2009
His mother thought she had to go to the bathroom when he was born. He was destined to be funky.
Musician, songwriter and record producer
Recorded · Clash · 2011
I know what I want to have, but I don't know if Linda would like it. I thought I'd have: 'He played between the notes.'
American-born British filmmaker
Recorded · The Guardian · 2012
On my tombstone I want the words, "He giggled in awe."
American actress and musician
Recorded · The Guardian · 2014
My daughter and I saw a tombstone the other day. All it had on it was, "She was a real character." We laughed and laughed. That'll be me.
Has knowing you will die changed how you live?
Historian and essayist
Recorded · NPR · 2010
I see the future as something that could come crashing down very fast. Let me put it slightly by way of a comparison.
Songwriter and musician
Recorded · The New York Times Magazine · 2003
I just thought right away that I wanted to work. ... This is a good job. It's been a good job. Work is the most effective drug there can possibly be. ...
Historian of American Christianity; professor at Duke Divinity School
Recorded · The New York Times · 2018
Every 90 days I lie in a whirling CT machine, dye coursing through my veins, and the doctors look to see whether the tumors in my liver are growing.
Critic, essayist, poet and broadcaster
Recorded · ABC News · 2015
Yeah. These books are all around me and they'll be here when I go and I'm that sick. I just don't know when it ends.
Novelist
Recorded · The Guardian · 2010
Let us consider me as a test case.
What are you still hoping to finish?
Novelist and essayist
Recorded · London Review of Books · 2014
Dear God, not a bucket list? Really, there is nothing that I want to do before I die, except perhaps just lie back and enjoy the morphine, daydreaming my way to oblivion.
Essayist, critic and journalist
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2010
There is an even longer shot that I do propose to attempt even though its likely efficacy lies at the outer limits of probability.
Historian and essayist
Recorded · The Guardian · 2010
It could really have an impact if I get it right.
Songwriter and musician
Recorded · The New York Times Magazine · 2003
The songs aren't all written. ... You don't know where they're going to go. That's the fun of the job. There's the usual malarkey, the usual gags, the usual stuff.
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